Government, Legislation from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1816. First edition. Folio (13" x 8.25"), letterpress on laid paper, 2 leaves & 10 folding tables. Shaw & Shoemaker/ Early American Imprints series II 39500. Disbound. Removed from a bound volume, moderately toned, foxed, stained, edge wear including small tears, otherwise Good. "Having this day received the enclosed abstracts on the books of the… Read more about this item

Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1816. First edition. Folio (13" x 8.25"), letterpress on laid paper, 5 pages including 2 folding tables. Shaw & Shoemaker/ Early American Imprints series II, 39535. Disbound. Removed from a bound volume, moderately toned, foxed, stained, edge wear, tears, separating at the spine, some creasing, otherwise Good. "The estimate for arsenals, etc. appears large, but it… Read more about this item

Florence, South Carolina: publisher not identified [Quality Education, Inc., John T. Harllee]. Lot of three issues: Volume XIII, Numbers 4, 7, & 10, August & November, 1985, February 1986. First editions. Quartos (11" x 8.5"), 8 pages each, illustrated. Original stapled newsletters. Old folds, mailing labels on each, moderate edge wear, light soiling, Good or better. Editor John T. Harllee… Read more about this item

Washington City: Published annually, by Davis & Force. Sold also by Cummins & Hilliard, Boston (& many others). 1823. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4"), [9] & 14-296 pages plus 4 leaves of plates (2 folding) & 5 folding tables, with additional illustrations in text. Publisher's marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered black roan. Binding with edge wear & rubbing… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Religious Liberty Association, 1911. "Revised & Enlarged Edition" edited by Willard Allen Colcord." Octavo (8.75" x 6"), 800 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered dark maroon cloth. Binding rubbed, spine gilt dull, modest wear at spine extremities & corners, front hinge started (still secure), previous owner's name & place at front pastedown, sporadic foxing & toning, a good or better… Read more about this item

No place, no publisher, no date (ca. 1946). Original camera-ready political cartoon by Bishop. Pencil, pen & ink on thick paper measuring 12 inches by 10 inches, verso blank, signed lower right. Lightly toned, small tear in the top margin (not affecting illustration), slight edge wear, pinhole lower left margin, otherwise Very Good or better. Quite possibly the work of Daniel Bishop,… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Issued by the American Bimetallic Union, printed by Hartman & Cadick, 1896. First edition. Brochure, single sheet measuring 6" x 17" folded 4 times vertically forming 10 pages providing 6 pages of text. Not found in OCLC as of 1/1/2022. Moderately toned, brief edge wear, partially split at one fold (text unaffected), otherwise very good. Adoniram J. Warner (1835 -… Read more about this item

[Washington]: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1848. Single sheet uncut (18.5" x 12") folded forming 8 pp. Tattered including losses & tears in the margins (text unaffected), creased, foxed, & stained, good or so & still quite useful. "Relates particularly to expenses as superintendent of Indian Affairs for Michigan and neighboring territory" (Abstract, OCLC).

Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1902 First edition thus, limited to 230 copies, this number 132. Small 4to, x, 587 pp, with frontis & 6 plates. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with Glasgow's coat of arms on the upper cover. Top edge gilt. Spine lightly faded, small gouge along the upper joint, half-title page browned, foxing mostly at… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Co, (1968) First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink in the year of publication to Cartha DeLoach. 8vo, xv, 238 pp. Publisher's gilt-lettered gray cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Upper margins slightly sunned, otherwise fine in very good, spine faded dust jacket The author was an eight term congressman from Arkansas This copy… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982 First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated by Bell at the ffep. 8vo, 254 pp. Publisher's gray paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered gray cloth, in dust jacket. Small stain from label removal at first blank, top edge of the text block lightly foxed, otherwise near fine in very good dust jacket… Read more about this item

New York: Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, 1883. First edition. 8vo, vi & 400 pp, frontis portrait w/ facsimile signature of the author. Original gilt-lettered green cloth, the upper cover with pictorial device in black depicting the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art of which the author was the founder. Modest fraying at spine extremities, corners bumped… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1965. First edition, this copy signed & inscribed on the second blank page. 8vo, [10] & 370 pages. Publisher's gray over gilt-lettered black cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, previous owner's name in ink at ffep, otherwise Very Good in moderately soiled dust jacket… Read more about this item

New York: New Yorkers for Abortion Law Repeal, no date [1970]. First edition. 4to (11" x 8.5"), single sheet folded to form 4 pages, printed on yellow paper. Brief portion of page one redacted (upper right), otherwise a Fine uncirculated copy. In 1970 New York became the second state (after Hawaii) to pass broad legislation legalizing abortion. Prior, although several… Read more about this item

[Providence, Rhode Island., General Assembly, Committee on Abolishment of Capital Punishments], 1838. Folio broadsheet (13 inches x 7.75 inches), 2 pp. Couple of short tears in the upper margin, lightly stained, otherwise very good. "To the Honorable the General Assembly: January session, AD 1838 The subscribers, two of the Committee appointed to revise the Penal Code, Respectfully Represent, That… Read more about this item

[Washington, DC]: [GPO?], February 16, 1869 4to, 6, [1, blank], [1] pp, docketed on the rear cover Original printed wraps. Old folds, light edge wear, brief foxing, printing occasionally light, Very Good Names 222 individuals from various counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky, & 1 from Washington, D.C. The act further stipulates that the named… Read more about this item

[New York]: Press of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, 1906. 8vo, 22 & [1] pp. Original printed wraps bound in blue cloth over boards with an applied hand-lettered spine label. Slight wear at the front hinge, otherwise Very Good. An offprint from the "New York Commercial", International Weekly Section, April 20, 1906. Citing the many advantages… Read more about this item

Boston: Chipman Law Publishing Company, 1922. First edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"), xii & [1] - 117 pages. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Slight shelf wear, endpapers & pastedowns browned, occasional foxing, otherwise very good. Considers the "problems which faced the court during the first years of the new government, when, without even a rule of court… Read more about this item